 | | Report (issue) | | 877(7) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mt. Mica, Maine, USA. 4.329 (100), 3.806 (90), 2.928 (90), 6.41 (50)...9.30 Total 99.97 100.57 100.00 (1) Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO, total...[P1.02 (O3.98 F0.02 )Σ=4.00 ]3 . (2) Black Mountain, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as...Association: Eosphorite, fluorapatite, moraesite, siderite, zircon, quartz (Mt. Mica, Maine, USA); siderite...siderite, albite, quartz (Black Mountain quarry, Maine, USA); wycheproofite, eosphorite, selwynite, cyrilovite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By DAVID M. SEAMAN 36 Winter Street, Norway, Maine 04268 (continued from... is a rather rare mineral in the pegmatites of Maine. Always a secondary mineral, it has been noted as...as crystals on quartz crystals at the Bennett Quarry at Buckfield. Yellow, scalenohedral calcite crystals...pegma tite with the wall rock at the Tamminen Quarry in Greenwood. C A S S I T E R I T E , tin oxide...noted in small amounts in a number of pegmatites in Maine, chiefly in the lithium replacement zones. It is |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining |  | Brownfield, Michael E., Foord, Eugene E., Sutley, Stephen J., Botinelly, Theodore (1993) Kosnarite, KZr2(PO4)3 a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. American Mineralogist, 78 (5-6) 653-656 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M.S. 972...at Paris, and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica...O ' , r r F o o r ) r r rfor o m .Kosnarite Black Mountain is almost pure KZrr(POo), with only trace amounts...analogueofgainesite. The name is for Richard A. Kosnar of Black Hawk, Colorado. INrnooucrroN In 1991,Vandall T...pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same time, King sent to E.E.F. a micromount |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite. DICKINSO^ITE, a complex...Branchville and Portland, Connecticut; and at Poland, Maine in lithium pegmatite. F1LLOWITE, with the same composition...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also from Poland and Buckfield, Maine; and from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phosphate-rich Pegmatite Formation in Maine The phosphate minerals of Maine are found principally within granitic...granitic pegmatites in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc counties located in the south central portion...Newry complex of pegmatites, the Black Mountain quarries in Rumford, and from miscellaneous occurrences...known primary source. The primary phosphates in Maine are few: fluorapatite, triphylite, lithiophilite...Monazite-(Ce) is also a primary pegmatitic phosphate in Maine, but unlike the others, it has not been altered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains and west of the old St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway on the south flank of the...line on the west to the coastal plain in Lawrence County on the east. The most valuable deposits are concentrated...District, in the south eastern part of Marion County, extends for several miles along Rush Creek. The...in 1857, erected a smeltery at Calamine, Sharp County, for the reduction of zinc carbonate ores. This...of zinc minerals. The Rush Creek mines of Marion County and throughout Law rence and Sharp Counties are |  | | Report (issue) | | Mn2+ Al(PO4 )(OH)2 • H2 O Eosphorite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...translucent. Color: Pink to rose-red, commonly brown to black when oxidized. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous to...928(1) β = 90.0◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Newry, Maine, USA. (ICDD 17-131). 2.826 (100), 2.422 (60b), 5.23...15.74 Total 99.82 100.00 (1) Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. (2) MnAl(PO4 )(OH)2 • H2 O. Polymorphism...Connecticut, USA); albite, cookeite, apatite, beryllonite, hydroxyl-herderite, tourmaline (Newry, Maine, USA) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | July, 1965) THE MICA WORKINGS OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, RUMFORD, MAINE. One fine summer day in 1939 Mr. Bartsch...road which led straight up to the workings on Black Mountain. It was a continuous stretch of mud and only...sled hitched to the tractor. The Grand Old Man of Maine, Mr. Charlie Marble of Buckfield, told me long ago...Shavey. Noyes Mountain in Greenwood, Maine is named after him. The first impression of the quarry was tremendously...up to the Black Mountain locality and had found some extraordinary specimens of eosphorite and roscherite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Parker a rusty streak it may be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species...exciting. Mr. and Mrs. Jack dal group of nearly black crystals of Dyer of Boston, Mrs. Bjareby and I had...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...way home we soon parked under the collector in Maine now living in Dover, big old pine at the entrance...body I was looking for was had found at Newry, Maine. Since we completely hidden. Fortunately there was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CHILDRENITE-EOSPHORITE SERIES* ConNerrusS. Hunr,sur, Jx., Haraard'Uniaersity, M assachusetts Cambrid...pseudo-orthorhombicunit cell as determinedon crystals from Newry, Maine are: do:10.45 A,bo:13.49 A,to=6s3 A, 9:90"00'. A...05 for the manganeseend-member' IurnooucrtoN Eosphorite was first described. by Brush and Dana (1S78)...dominant divalent metal which was manganese in eosphorite and iron in childrenite' Later Drugman (1914)...mine, Cornwall, and of eosphorite from Poland, Maine' Other analyses of eosphorite are given by Landes (1925) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | -THE COLLECTOR'S— CORNER Pegmatites from Black Mountain, Maine by BRUCE W. B U C K L E Y 32 Bennett Road...Massachusetts 01945 Black Mountain is located in Oxford County, NW of Rumford, Maine (map #1). Over the...has been extensive commercial operation at Black Mountain for mica, feldspar, spod umene, and other...and pink tourmaline fans. The world's largest eosphorite crys tals were found here prior to the recent...with tailings that spill down the NW face of the mountain (map # 2 ) . The road is often impassable for |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatites. Association: Morinite, lacroixite, eosphorite, apatite, tourmaline (Greifensteine, Germany);...In the USA, at the Davis mine, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; from the Dunton quarry, Newry...Newry and the Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford Co., and elsewhere in Maine; at the Tip Top mine, 8...Co., South Dakota; from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina. Name: Honoring...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, R6219. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...amblygonite crystals over a foot in size, large black (schorl) tourmaline crystals to four inches in diameter...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.05 (10), 2.73 (9), 3.22 (8), 3.48 (7), 2.23 (6)...0] 100.00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Ca3.28 Mn0.47 Mg0.17 )Σ=3.92 Fe2...Association: Apatite, whitlockite, childrenite–eosphorite, laueite, strunzite, stewartite, mitridatite...mitridatite, amblygonite, siderite. Distribution: In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton...the Dunton quarry, Newry, and on Black Mountain and Red Hill, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine. From Hühnerkobel |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Taughannock Creek) and harzburgitic (Portland Point quarry) affinities. The yellow garnet is grossular. Phlogopite...Roscherite 0 Palerrno, NH V Dunton Quarry, ME Black Mountain, ME Estes Quarry, ME v Martin Prospect, ME 1...the samples. Specimens from the Estes quarry, West Baldwin, Maine, exhibit a considerable range in composition... childrenite-eosphorite, and muscovite. Samples from the Martin prospect, Newry, Maine, are confirmed...hydroxylherderite and fluorapatite. The Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine, samples yield compositions ranging |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | Birch, William D., Pring, Allan, Bevan, D. J. M., Kharisun, (1994) Wycheproofite: a new hydrated sodium aluminium zirconium phosphate from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, and a new occurrence of kosnarite. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (393) 635-639 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.393.13 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K-analogue of gainesite - - as well as wardite, eosphorite, cyrilovite, leucophosphitc, rockbridgeite, a...discovered pegmatite veins in granite boulders in a quarry at Wycheproof, a small town in northwestern Victoria...veins were lined with well-formed crystals of eosphorite, the first record of this Mineralogical Magazine...discovered in the late 1980s in pegmatites in Maine, USA (Brownfield et al., 1993). The s e c o n d new...present on five specimens. Occurrence The granite quarry yielding the wycheproofite and kosnarite is on |  | | | | phosphate mineral from the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA F. C. HAWTHORNE1,*, N. A. BALL1...University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA 2 [Received 8 April 2009; Accepted 6 July 2009]...tourmaline-bearing pocket at the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA. It occurs as subhedral blocky...properties, X-ray powderdiffraction data, Newry, Maine, USA. Introduction MAHLMOODITE, Fe2+Zr(PO4)2(H2O)4...ore deposit at Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA, was described by Milton et al. (1993) as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...length. At the dump of the most northerly quartz quarry, large ilmenite crystals over two inches in diameter...chalcopyrite in feldspar. A second large quartz quarry just to the north of the staurolite area proved...series. Hematite occurs as lenticular splendent black crystals up to 2 cm in diameter in cavities of granular...Campbell Road, 2.5 km N W of its intersection with County R t . 87, 4 km N N E of the village of Edwards |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | caesium mineralization); followed by columbite; then black, green, or blue tourmaline; montebrasite; rubellite...inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...accessory mineral. At the Lord's Hill, Stoneham, Maine locality; autunite occurs as excellent haloes surrounding...crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely... autunite, uranophane, common beryl, cleavelandite, black tourmaline, and quartz; and also in the lithium |
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Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA